"I have a masochistic interest in catchily named social media self-improvement challenges, so I already knew about 75 hard 75 days of drinking eight pints of water, doing two 45-minute workouts, eating clean and, endearingly, reading 10 pages of nonfiction before it made its recent comeback. Paddy McGuinness has reignited interest, crediting the regime started in 2019 by podcaster Andy Frisella for his transformation from a normal soft-bodied human into an uncanny mass of bronzed abs and pecs."
"I debated an intellectual 75 hard, to transform your brain into as finely honed a machine as McGuinness's body. Participants would pack the library like a gym in January, every table crowded with locked-in bros hyping each other up, as they struggle through Gravity's Rainbow or Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. I can't, it makes no sense! I've read this paragraph 12 times! That's quitter's talk."
Fascination exists with catchily named social-media self-improvement challenges. 75 Hard requires drinking eight pints of water daily, two 45-minute workouts, clean eating, and reading ten pages of nonfiction. Paddy McGuinness credited the regime started in 2019 by podcaster Andy Frisella for his dramatic physical transformation. Several bespoke variants are imagined: an intellectual 75 Hard focused on demanding reading, sonnet composition and calculus; 75 Housetrained focused on domestic routines like recycling and dishwasher habits; and 75 Gentle focused on extracting small winter joys such as stroking animals, eating childhood favorites, napping, sharing wholesome memes, and drinking ten cups of a preferred hot drink weekly.
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